Section 19 of the JJ Act | Children's Court Must Pass a Reasoned Order Before Trying a Child as an Adult: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that a Children's Court cannot proceed to try a child in conflict with law as an adult without first passing a reasoned order under Section 19(1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. Declaring the requirement mandatory, a Bench of Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Prasanna B. Varale set aside the murder conviction of a youth who was 16 years and…
